Freedom Summer
Description
On June 21, 1964, civil rights workers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner were murdered by members of the Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi. A watershed moment in the movement for equality between blacks and whites, the young men's disappearance riveted the nation. This program confronts the ugly reality of racist violence in the South during those troubled times and the sequence of events that ultimately spurred Congress and President Johnson to enact the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Runtime
45 min
Series
Subjects
- Racism (548)
- Political activists (157)
- Civil rights movements (244)
- Ethnicity (289)
- African Americans (1140)
Geography
Genre
Date of Publication
[2010], c1996
Database
Films on Demand
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